Mohammed bin Salman.. From the Advices of "Sun Tzu" to the Ridiculous of "Muslim Brotherhood"?!
English - Monday 15 July 2019 الساعة 08:10 am
Smeer Rashad Al Yusofi
In his first interview with Bloomberg, Mohammed bin Salman - before becoming crown prince - explained that he was influenced by the book "The Art of War" for the Chinese leader, "Sun Tzu". He stressed that the war against the Iran-backed Houthi militias (is) almost over
Though he does not utter in a vacuum, I made sure to read a certified translation of the book "Bīngfǎ, 兵法" in Chinese, older than 2500 years old
It is described as the "Bible For Military Studies" and is regarded by experts as one of the most important references in the Arts of War management, politics and economics, and classified it among the top 100 books in the history
Given its importance, It had been translated during the last two centuries into 29 languages. Hundreds of studies were written on, the most important of which was "The Art of War and the 36th Chinese
It was inspired by Napoleon Bonaparte and Maozi Tung in the last century, while the Germans depended on in the two World Wars. Also, the Americans devised the "Operation Desert Storm" strategy in the second Gulf War, printing about one million copies of it, distributed to the soldiers involved in the liberation of Kuwait, including 797,000 Marines, according to the military expert Harold Ullman in his book "Shock and Awe" 1996
I was personally somewhat obsessed about the book, since a year passed without the end of the war in Yemen as the prince, who became the crown prince, insisted in his interview. I wished the prince would throw it into the trash. It would not be reasonable to the liberation of Yemen to be reckoned on a Chinese writer whose country is known for its poor-quality products. It might well be it was behind the defeat and suicide of Hitler in World War II. But a friend of mine was fond of the book, vigorously defended it, and attributed the failure to the confidence of the Saudi Crown Prince who received promises from the "Muslim Brotherhood" to achieve victory if he pulled the arm of President Hadi to appoint Ali Mohsen as a deputy, citing that the Prince's statement came after the appointment of Ali Mohsen with 20 days.... Surely, It will not be long before the Crown Prince corrects his mistake with another deputy with a new president
We've waited together.. Two years passed without any correction .. Until we forgot the interview of Mohammed bin Salman and the book of the Chinese leader .. In return, the Brotherhood and the Houthis exchanged the forgetfulness, spent together charging the UAE and facing Gen. Tariq Saleh. One of them even said: "The principles of the so-called "Revolution" that united them against Tariq's uncle in 2011 may bring them together again... They even pledged to stand in the way of those who are hostile to the Houthis, bringing them back from Al Barh city (West of Taiz), and preventing them from liberating the besieged city of Taiz, at whatever cost to themselves
Later on, they gathered together against "Adnan Al-Hammadi" and indisputably, became the enemy of "Taiz", although he had the first shot against the Houthis and has been instrumental in the liberation of the city .. that because he is a brave man. And his guilt today, that he refuses to disengage from his military principles, and turns into a corrupt successor.. passes their shameful deals
All that happened within two years .. but we got shocked weeks ago by the wonderful awakening of the brothers of the suspicious transactions .. made them appear in the legitimacy government T.V channels blaming the Saudi Arabia for everything, because it did not complete linking the Giants of the Red Sea Coast with Al-Maqdashi's list, accusing it that it did not support them with even a tank or heavy weapons, and even charging the Saudis that they are seeking to hand Yemen over to the Houthis
These accusation are blatant lies and debunked misrepresentations, and we wish it to be true, because they are really unworthy of receiving such weapons even if they are light
, after the bitter experience Yemen has been subjected to because of them. The government of Hadi has received the capabilities of a state with an army, republican guards, air force and central security. But it restructured the army, as soon as the US ambassadorgave it the start signal.. They left all of Yemen's weapons to the Houthis, fled from Sanaa, terrified, without even firing a shell
They did not get enough with Coalition's weapons they took and stored, they even want more: planes, heavy weapons, and missiles.. in blatant violation of the agreements to sell such weapons.. to just hand them as they used to the Houthis.. This is what they are good at
I forgot the Chinese book, even one of their clown analysts reminded me.. I heard him by chance, accusing the the Saudi Crown Prince of empowering the Houthis .. mocking the Crown Prince for not being benefited from the book "Art of War". That inspired me to back it using my friend who is crazy about it
My friend concluded this time by explaining to the Crown Prince that his statement - which was not true yet - was committed to one of the guidelines of the book, which advises not to divulge the information and say the opposite
My attention was soon drawn to the following advices: "Keep a bait to tempt your opponent. Demonstrate the spread of chaos among your ranks, and then start to crush your enemy. Do not give your enemy the opportunity when he takes a break. Attack while he is not ready, and show in the place that he does not expect you. When attack, pretend you are weak. When you maneuver pretend you are idle. When you approach the enemy, make him think you are far away. When you are away, make him think you are near him". Once I finished reading it, I remembered the battles of the palace in Taiz that the "Muslim Brotherhood" has been fighting for four years in the last ten days of Ramadan ... and how they shamelessly boast about on media to justify the disbursement of the lumped check .. But when they tried during the past two weeks to crawl towards Al Hawban in the dark of the equivalent of 5 billion riyals they failed as usual .. Although this year, they promised the Coalition to cut the "vein" of Houthi, provided that the fighters of "Abu Abbas" get out of Taiz
My word to those is what the Chinese leader, "Sun Tzu" said and advised: Avoid the long wars, because they have negative impact on the morale of the soldiers, and therefore on the result of the war. And his conviction that if victory can be achieved by the foolish hasty is better than slowly. There is no precedent that a country benefited from getting into a long war
